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Author: Francesca Kilpatrick

Francesca Kilpatrick is a PhD Researcher in climate communications at the University of Brighton. Her research looks at the use of security narratives within contemporary climate activism and policymaking. She teaches at University College London on Policy for Sustainable Resource Use, and is Senior Editor at Interfere Journal for Critical Theory and Radical Politics.
21 March 202222 April 2022 Francesca Kilpatrick

Moving the Immovable Object: Obama’s Climate Securitisation

Francesca Kilpatrick reflects on the usefulness and risks of casting climate change as a security issue, looking at the changes to climate policy under the Obama administration as an example.

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Main image credits: Fruit seller in Hebron by Chloe Skinner. Royal Navy nuclear-armed submarine HMS Vanguard returns to HMNB Clyde, Scotland, November 2009, Defence Images (MoD) via Flickr. Woman sitting on the ruins of her house destroyed by Israel in Masafer Yatta, January 2023, via Wikipedia.

 

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